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pack up

Speech parts

1. pack up - Noun

2. pack up - Verb

Meaning

To give in. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

To clear away and place into storage.

To put back together. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

To move one’s residence.
After 5 months in Madrid, I've decided it is time to pack up.

To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
Pack up the crates.

(of things) To put into bags to prepare to move.

(informal, of a machine) To break, to cease to function.

(transitive, intransitive) To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
Ralph, it's your turn to pack up the bowl.
The bong is already packed up.

A bundle or shipment of goods.

(Hull, East Yorkshire, Wales) A packed lunch.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room. Ray Bradbury

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go. Jomo Kenyatta

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life. Marcus Terentius Varro

It must happen to us all...We pack up what we've learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we'll ever know. Richard Bach

The nightmare of every government on earth is a million people assembled in the town square of your capital city, demanding that you pack up to Switzerland. no body can say No to a million people on the streets. Terence McKenna

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave. Jacques Rivette

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